What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents? A Moral Duty and Legal Responsibility in Bangladesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12583173 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rafea Khatun (East West University (EWU), Dhaka, Bangladesh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 363-373 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Law Policy and the Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-9939 • E-ISSN: 1464-3707 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/lawfam/eby013 |
| OpenAlex | W2893083705 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
In most cultures, some care for elderly parents by their children is generally expected based on either morality or legal instruments. In Bangladesh, although society is guided by religion, in recent years, for a variety of socio-economic reasons, social and family structures are fragmenting and extended families are declining, which leads to other social problems such as the neglect of elderly parents, and decreasing social bonding and respect. In recent years there have been a number of occasions in various districts of Bangladesh where elderly parents have been inhumanely treated and neglected. In order to deal with this, in 2013 the government brought forward a Maintenance of Parents Act. This article tries to make a bridge between moral duty and legal responsibility towards parents. It will also make a comparative analysis of the 2013 Act with Acts of other jurisdictions and make some suggestions for improving the Act while criticizing various provisions of the existing legal framework for elder parents’ care
Business · Duty · Government (linguistics · Morality · Neglect · Order (exchange · Political science · Psychiatry · Social responsibility · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Marriage and Family Dynamics · Psychology · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |